A couple weeks ago I acquired a cheap, but decent electric guitar kind of by accident. It's strange to see a thread about Rocksmith show up here. I suspect though that even world class guitar hero players would not consider themselves musicians, but gamers (unless they played some other instrument of course, in which case they might be both gamers and musicians).
With all that being said, I would say that there's nothing wrong with those sort of games if one enjoys them, great. But if it is playing music, it's certainly a lesser way to do it. Is that prejudice or maybe elitism? possibly. Is there any way to vary the tone with different dynamics or articulations? I may be wrong but I don't think so (I've never played the game so correct me if I'm in error on these points). With guitar hero, I think that you're memorizing a pattern of button pushes. With Rocksmith you're learning how to form actual chords on the guitar, how to improvise solos over the pentatonic scale, and other real world musical skills.
Is this distinction enough? I would say so. I would definitely say the playing rocksmith is making music. Compare that with Rocksmith which is very similar to guitar hero in a lot of ways but uses an actual electric guitar and provides skills that (at least in theory) translate to outside the game (you can hook the guitar up to an actual amp and play the patterns and progressions that you learn in the game). Perhaps it is (I think this is true) that you can only make the sounds within the game.
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